Every map starts with the same lie: The earth is flat. The globe isn’t a portable, affordable, or even satisfying way to look at the world, so these exaggerations are necessary. However, mapmakers ...

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...

WALTHAM, Mass. & LELYSTAD, the Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mercator Therapeutics, the first biopharmaceutical company to systematically use in vivo phage display technology to develop novel cancer ...